A new book by David Oshinsky enti­tled ​“Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America” takes a clos­er look at the ground­break­ing Supreme Court case that stopped the death penal­ty in 1972. The author, a Pulitzer Prize-win­ning his­to­ri­an who is the hold­er of the Jack S. Blanton Chair at the University of Texas and a vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor at New York University, dis­cuss­es the debates and con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the case of Furman v. Georgia, includ­ing a focus on the issues of racial prej­u­dice and arbi­trari­ness. Austin Sarat called the book ​“A metic­u­lous­ly researched and ele­gant­ly writ­ten account by a mas­ter­ful sto­ry­teller.… Filled with strik­ing insights.” The book will be pub­lished by University Press of Kansas on April 14, 2010.

(D. Oshinsky, ​“Capital Punishment On Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America,” University Press of Kansas, April 14, 2010). See Books and Supreme Court.

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